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Latest News & Announcements

LIBRARY HOSTS LIBRARIANS FROM THIKA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE ON A BENCHMARKING VISIT

With the approvals from the offices of DVC (Academic Affairs) and that of Director, Library & Information Services, library staff from Thika Technical Institute were accorded benchmarking and learning visit at JKML.

The session which stretched from 9.00am to 4.00pm was coordinated by staff from Circulation and Technical Processing Units.  

Delegation of 6 from Thika Technical was led by their Library Team-Leader.

The objectives of their visit to JKML were; 

Library Staff Recognized During Annual Staff Recognition Awards Ceremony, 2023

When it comes to quality service delivery the Library & Information Services department has always been a front runner.

During the annual UoN Staff Performance Recognition Award ceremony, three library members of staff, namely - Evelyn Anambo (College Librarian, Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine), Grace Mugira and Alice Mueni (Librarians at the Faculty of Law) received awards in recognition of their exemplary service.

Library Staff Particpate in the National Tree Planting Day

As the country embarked on a journey to plant at least 15 billion trees as directed by the National Government, the Department of library and information services was not left behind.

Led by the Deputy Director Planning, Mr. George Nyalwal, library staff including Evelyne Anambo, Faculty Librarian Agriculture & Vetrinary and Grace Mugira, from the Faculty of Law participated in the exercise.

Library Receives Book Donations from the Town & County Planners Association of Kenya (TCPAK)

On 19th October 2023, the Town & County Planners Association of Kenya (TCPAK) donated books and Journals to the Faculty of the Built Environment & Design Library. The event took place in the Dean’s boardroom.

Looking on is the Director of library services Madam Angela Mumo, Deputy director technical services Madam Rosemary Otando, the Acquisitions Librarian Mr David Mulonzoa, the Librarian FBED library Madam Christine Mayende, Chairmen of departments, and student leaders.

ProQuest Journals

The University of Nairobi through the Library department is pleased to announce the addition of a new multi-discplinary journal database to its collection. 

ProQuest Journals features scholarly journals, and professional journals in all the fields within social and political sciences with complete resources such as Criminal Justice Database, Education Database, Library Science Database, Linguistics Database, Political Science Database, Social Science Database, and Sociology Database.

Library holds Orientation for New Students (Sept 29, 2023)

The Director, Library & Information Services (LIS) led a team of Librarians in conducting a scheduled Library orientation for new in-take of undergraduate students of 2023/2024 academic year. The orientation event was hosted at LT101 on 1st floor of the University Of Nairobi Towers.  Over 700 new students admitted into various Courses in Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASS) and Faculty of Engineering attended the occasion.

During the session the first years were introduced in details on library issues including the enlisted below -  

The Pan African Review Publishers Donate Quarterly Issue | September – December, 2023 to the UoN Library (Sept 21, 2023)

The Library and Information Services Department receives 30 copies of the publication titled “Africa’s Leadership” issued by The Pan African Review. This is a quarterly publication issue release.

On 21st September 2023 the Acquisitions Librarian Mr. David Mulonzia received the publication on behalf of the Director Library and Information Services from Mr. Hortance Ndayisaba (The Pan African Review, Kenya Representative).

The donation will be an invaluable addition to our Library Users and for collection development.

University of Illinois Library Visit on Collaboration and Partnership

On 21st July 2023, two members of staff from Mortenson Center, the University of Illinois visited the University of Nairobi Library.  Prof. Clara M. Chu, Director of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at the University of Illinois and Dr. Peggy Nzomo, the International Library Initiatives Specialists-Senior Associate at Mortenson Center held fruitful discussions with the University of Nairobi Library team, led by the Deputy Director (Technical Services) Rosemary Otando.